EDUCATION FOR WOMEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19970, 11 December 1926, Page 10

EDUCATION FOR WOMEN.

DEMAND IN ENGLAND. A RAPIDLY-GROWING MOVEMENT. (Special to Daili Times.) AUCKLAND, December 10. A notable feature of present-day English life is the great and rapidly-growing demand for higher education, especially among women and girls. Some impres sions of the movement were given in an interview by Miss E H. Sandford, M-A., who has just arrived from England to become Head mistress of the Auckland Diocesan High School for Girls. Young women to-day, said Miss Sandford, were looking more and more upon education as a gateway to a career. They no longer cared for the prospect of a dependent existence, even when the means of the family were sufficient to give them comfortable incomes for life. Many of them also were pursuing education simply for its own sake, without any definite idea of the use to which they would put their learning in after life. It would be quite wrong to suppose that the young women who were flocking to Oxford and Cambridge, as well as to such universities as London and Manchester, were all school mistresses in the making. The disproportion of the sexes which had been increased by the war had led great numbers to seek careers which required a good standard of education All the universities were having difficulty in providing for would-be women students. The halls and colleges at Oxford and Cambridge were full, and such institntions as the Bedford College for Women, attached to the London University were in much the same condition- It had been necessary to enrol large numbers of extia collegiate students.